Launchpad takes ultra low power to the extreme
posted Sep 30th 2010 3:00pm by Jakob Griffithfiled under: misc hacks
We’ve all known the MSP430s under the Launchpad are designed to be low power, but who wants to bet how long the chip can last on only 20F worth of capacitors? A couple of hours? A day at max? [Kenneth Finnegan] setup a MSP430 with supercaps to find out. To make sure the chip is actually running, [Kenneth] programmed it to count from 0 to 9 over a period of 10 seconds, and then reset. To get it ultra low power, the chip is in sleep mode most of the time, and a raw low current LCD is used to display the output. While [Kenneth] simply checks the chip every few hours to see if it’s still counting, a setup much like the Flash Destroyer, tracking a clock and then storing the current value would get a more exact time of death. Either way, it’s been over 3 weeks…and still counting. Video after the rift.
tagged: chip, count, display, launchpad, lcd, low power, msp430, raw
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http://hackaday.com/2010/09/30/launchpad-takes-ultra-low-power-to-the-extreme/
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